To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
Dean AchesonThe best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dean AchesonThe test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.
Dean AchesonNo people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson